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Post by collin degrea on May 30, 2012 7:49:54 GMT -7
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Collin was still struggling to get his bearings on the place. He'd been in Richmond for almost a month now and still some how ended up getting lost. That morning he'd slept in, was late for his first lecture and didn't really know anyone well enough to bum any notes and spent most of his next lecture trying to piece together what he missed while working on late homework for the same professor. It wasn't that Collin didn't work hard, he did, but he was also an expert at procrastination. After that was lunch followed by yet another lecture.
Other then the rough morning things were going well though. He was doing well in his studies, not so much getting his work done, but he was doing very well with the exams. Though when the med students got out he couldn't help looking envious, though he hadn't the where with all for such an intense course and he knew it. Lunch finally came around and he headed out to the courtyard to enjoy the sun, sitting in the shade with a book in his lap, notes open, and finding anything and everything to look at that meant he could avoid actually writing anything. Opening his phone he found yet another call from his mother. Collin loved his mother, but wow, the woman had called him almost every day since he had moved, and always seemed to call him just at that moment he couldn't answer. Call his mother, or work, ugh, which is the lesser of two evils? Shoves his phone back into his pocket and returns to staring at his books.
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OUTFIT! Laaaazy
INSPIRATION! --
TEMPLATE CREDIT! Arro @ Caution 2.0
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Post by lily collins on Jun 1, 2012 5:01:45 GMT -7
Lily had had a busy, and tiring morning. And the day was only half over. It had started off with a long class in literature. She usually enjoyed that class, but today, it had been one long hour of listening to her teacher go on and on about how wonderful this guy's writing was. The objective of the class had been to learn about this guy's style of writing, which was apparently very unique, but her teacher had gotten a little caught up in describing all the positive traits of it. She had pretty much gushed about how amazing it was. Like she really wanted to listen to an hour of that.
The next class had been her usual least favorite. Editing. She sucked at it, hated the class, and wished she could have somehow avoided it. But unfortunatly, one of the requirements for her degree was to take an editing class. So she had struggled through editing a paper, and had gotten a lousy grade as usual. Later had been another lecture, during which she tried to get some work done for other classes, but between taking notes, and having to listen to the guy, she had gotten only a sentence down. It had been rather a relief to get to lunch.
She grabbed a sandwich from the cafeteria, and headed out to the courtyard. She desperatly needed to get her essay finished, try and get her editing homework done, as well as write her article for the school newspaper. Oh, and she couldn't forget about that other paper that was due this afternoon. It was supposed to have been finished last night, but doing the last touch ups on it at 3 in the morning had not sounded appealing. Her sleep schedule was rather now that she was in college.
With her books, and laptop in hand, she headed entered the courtyard. Working outside was a nice change of pace from the library. The cafeteria was impossible to work in. She spotted another guy sitting in the shade with books and notes around him. "Mind if I sit here?" She asked, gesturing to a spot nearby. "I'm Lily by the way."
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Post by collin degrea on Jun 2, 2012 14:46:28 GMT -7
GONNA SMILE AND NOT GET WORRIED I try but it shows [/b][/size] a n y o n e • c a n • s e e • m y • e v e r y • f l a w anyone can say they're above this all[/i][/center][/font] • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
He was enjoying the sunshine. It should be a crime to expect anyone to work on a day like this. Misses highschool, days like this would be strictly for football practice. Okay so yeah, he was meant to do homework on sunny days then too, he just never did. Sure he wanted to be studying to be a doctor, but he has no illusions as to why he wasn't. Collin was born with the attention span of a distracted gnat, which was just another thing that made him differ from his sister who was so hard to distract at times you'd think she was just ignoring you, which she very well may have been.
So lost in the smell of freshly cut grass, or the sound of people all around him chattering away to one another as they move from class to class he didn't even notice anyone approaching him. It wasn't until Lilly actually spoke that he realised she was there. Jumping back a little, his heart skipping a beat his gazed snapped to her, and then straight down to her feet. Okay so yeah, it was silly, or at least he felt silly about it, Collin still couldn't manage eye contact with strangers. It was a lifelong quirk of Collin's something his closest friends took the everliving piss out of him for.
"Yeah...I mean no! like um, go ahead." Smiles at her, chewing on his lip, already underlining every mistake he'd made infront of this woman and they weren't yet past the introductions "Collin!"
Leans over to her and offers his hand. That was a normal thing to do right? I mean it wasn't too formal or anything was it?
It wasn't Lilly's fault he was questioning himself, or anything she had done, this was just his normal state of being.
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TAGS! Lilly!
OUTFIT! Laaaazy
INSPIRATION! --
TEMPLATE CREDIT! Arro @ Caution 2.0
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Post by lily collins on Jun 4, 2012 14:30:28 GMT -7
She smiled. He had jumped a little, and didn't make eye contact with her for long, which she understoond. Hey, she didn't like doing it either. She wasn't the most social person, often having chosen to stay home and write rather than go to a school football game or something like that. Her friends tried to get her to go, but they had just never been her thing.
"Nice to meet you Collin." She replied then smiled a bit as her offered her a hand. She took it, and sat down nearby him. She laid her books out around her to get organized, and removed a pencil from her pencil case. "Anything interesting?" She asked, gesturing to his stack of books.
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Post by collin degrea on Jun 5, 2012 13:14:58 GMT -7
GONNA SMILE AND NOT GET WORRIED I try but it shows [/b][/size] a n y o n e • c a n • s e e • m y • e v e r y • f l a w anyone can say they're above this all[/i][/center][/font] • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Collin wasn't unfriendly exactly, but he'd grown up in a very close knit community which tended to view outsiders as well...outsiders. If there was a robbery, blame the tourist, if someone got into a fight, the guy who just moved in was responsible, if anyone did anything wrong look at the guy just passing through. Sure half the time it wasn't, and he did know better, but growing up in a place that paranoid left a little bit of a mark on Collin in the respect that he never got to know anyone outside his own little circle of friends and family. He never really learned how to respond to people he didn't know, or how they'd respond to him, and most of the people he did know loved to point out his flaws, in a friendly way sure, but it coloured how he responded to new people. Already he was wondering in his head how odd he must look, new guy who wont even look at an attractive woman, from the little he had seen of her he'd bet there weren't many guys who didn't look at her any chance they had. He couldn't help but smile at her when she said it was nice to meet him, and shifts around a bit so she can sit next to him. At least she wasn't pointing it out that he was weird, that made her nicer then most of the people he knew back home already.
"Um, not really...thing on child care and stuff...but I have to do it" Wrinkles his nose at the book, it wasn't that he didn't like kids, but it kind of underlined the fact he wasn't doing medicine, but it was his own fault, he hadn't spent all those hours playing football...and had he been born smarter. Slowly a grin spread over his featured as he recalled the best part of not doing medicine "Get to start the practical stuff soon though!"
Glancing over at her books he tried to figure out her major, something to do with writing was all he could gather though "What about you...like um...I mean is there anything interesting...in your books...?" Smooth...
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TEMPLATE CREDIT! Arro @ Caution 2.0
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Post by lily collins on Jun 5, 2012 16:14:23 GMT -7
(sorry about the previous short post. my muse was gone)
Lily had always been the quiet type. In school she had kept to herself, usually just focusing on her studies. She had had a couple friends she'd hang out with, but most Friday nights, she was at home with a movie or something. And she had never gotten into dating. Not that wasn't interested, but in highschool, she had had more important things on her mind. Like the fact that she couldn't walk down the hall without someone staring. Her quiet nature was partly caused by it. Well, mostly caused by it. During of her freshman year, someone started a vicious rumor, and the next thing she knew, the whole school practically hated her. It was why she was here. Half-way through her sophomore year, she, and her parents and brother finally packed up and moved. The bullying just got to be too much. She didn't let it bother her anymore, and had finally just moved on, and left the past behind her. And she never mentioned it. All she got was pity, and she hated that.
She was rather liking Collin. He was different from most boys she met. Some flirted with her, which she always ignored, others would try to get her into a date, and a few didn't pay any attention to her at all.
"Yeah, same here. I really hate my editing class." She laughed. "I know what you mean. It seems like half the stuff I don't really need." She changed a couple words in her essay as she listened to him. It sounded like his major was something do with with medicine, a career that she rather admired. She herself could never do it. She was utterly useless when someone was sick or injured. So he wasn't a smooth talker, but it was rather a relief from what a lot of guys seemed to do. Much better than having to listen to some guy try to sweet talk her into a date. "A little. A bit of literature, and a couple essays. Except for the editing paper of course. Boring, and difficult. I'll be lucky to get a C. Majoring in journalism." She replied. "Let me guess. something to do with medicine?"
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